STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- Officials from the Stephen Siller Children's Foundation and Building Homes for Heroes broke ground this morning in Prince's Bay on a home for Brendan Marrocco, a Huguenot resident who became the first soldier in the Iraq War to survive the loss of four limbs.

Marrocco, who turned 24 last month, has been living at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D.C., where he is undergoing rehabilitation and improving his skills with prosthetic limbs. He was injured by a roadside bomb on Easter Sunday, 2009.

The two-story home, located on Holton Avenue, will be outfitted with an elevator, wheelchair ramps and an electrical system that operates doors and lights on verbal cue.

"I never envisioned it was going to be this big thing," said Marrocco, who attended the ceremonial groundbreaking. "The community is greater than I ever imagined."

The home will be located across the street from Wolfe's Pond Park, where Marrocco used to play ball as a child.

"It's going to be nice," he said. "Nothing is going to hold me back in this house."

Siller Foundation Chairman Frank Siller told the Advance in July he hoped to have the home completed by Christmas.

Proceeds from the Lt. Dan Band concert Saturday in the St. George Theatre will go toward construction of the home. The Lt. Dan Band, a 12-member group led by actor-musician Gary Sinise, is named after the Vietnam vet double amputee Sinise portrayed in the 1994 film "Forest Gump."

In a joint venture for charity, the concert is being co-sponsored by the Siller Foundation and Building Homes for Heroes.